There is only one kind of fun and the fun isn't dependant on the plattform a game is released on. If a game isn't as much fun on plattfom x as it is on plattform y, it's a worse game. End of story.
"An amazing technical achievement for a handheld" isn't worth anything in my book. If you have to cut things out of a game in order to make it run on a technically inferior plattform you're already doing it wrong. A handheld game doesn't have to be worse than console games per se -- there are plenty of DS games that are holding a candle against most PS360 games, for example --, but if you downport a game on a handheld and cut features of gameplay element in the process, then the game is a worse game on said plattform and as such should be scored lower than its counterparts.
Of course, that doesn't mean that NfS Vita is a bad game or a bad idea. Quite the contrary, it's still a great piece of software, but nevertheless a less fun one.
"An amazing technical achievement for a handheld" isn't worth anything in my book. If you have to cut things out of a game in order to make it run on a technically inferior plattform you're already doing it wrong. A handheld game doesn't have to be worse than console games per se -- there are plenty of DS games that are holding a candle against most PS360 games, for example --, but if you downport a game on a handheld and cut features of gameplay element in the process, then the game is a worse game on said plattform and as such should be scored lower than its counterparts.
Of course, that doesn't mean that NfS Vita is a bad game or a bad idea. Quite the contrary, it's still a great piece of software, but nevertheless a less fun one.